"Students failing because of Twitter, texting,"

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Same here! The only reason I'll shorten something is if my text goes slightly over the 160 character limit. If it's going to be way over, I just send 2 texts. But I'll always change "and" to "&", take out some commas, or not leave a space in between a period and the next sentence before I start shortening and/or changing the spelling of words.

Thinking about it, I believe it takes me more time to edit my texts than it does to actually type them out sometimes

Same here! This is also why I call more than I text. If we need multiple, long texts then pleeeeeeease just call me. LOL

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Same here! This is also why I call more than I text. If we need multiple, long texts then pleeeeeeease just call me. LOL

THANK YOU!

The other problem with texting is that everyone becomes so dependent on it, that no one wants to talk on the phone anymore. If a text conversation lasts more than 10 minutes, I simply stop texting back. Then the person usually asks, "You there?" and then they call me, or decide that the conversation isn't important enough to continue, and they give up. It's stupid to text for a half hour, having to put smileys, or "LOL" after every sentence so the other person understands your tone, when a 5 minute phone call could have worked just as well... and in some cases, even better.